Sutherland O.M., Graham (1903 – 1980) – ‘St Mary Hatch’ (T.22 / C.28).

Etching. 1926. Probably State V of V. Signed. This and ‘Lammas’ (C.23) are timeless idylls of English village life. Earlier states of this print bore a passage from Psalm 14 in Latin which read … ‘Lord, who shall abide in they Tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness’. The print was made while Sutherland was being inducted into the Catholic church. However, the inscription was presumably taken off to remove any sense of dogmatism and to allow the print the feeling of universal harmony with which it pervades.